As we ring in the new year at Kenya Kids Can, we’re welcoming several thousand ninth-grade students to our school lunch program.

Many girls and students from poorer communities stop attending school once they’ve completed 8th grade – the end of their primary education. In response to this reality, Kenya is shifting Grade 9 from high school to upper primary school.

We’re thrilled about this change. For our KKC students, this amounts to an additional year of reliable nutrition and education. A lot can happen in the span of a year.

 

IN THE SPAN OF A YEAR

What does an additional year of learning mean for our students?

In the span of a year, a typical KKC Grade 9 student will:

Consume 180 bowls of githeri for school lunch
Attend 36 weeks of school, learning English, math, science, history, and computers
Grow about 1.5 inches and put on 8.7 pounds
Play dozens of lunchtime soccer games
Enjoy hundreds of conversations and jokes with their friends
And gain thousands of hours of uncomplicated childhood

FOOD FOR OUR NINTH GRADERS

Every school day we provide lunch to each student in our KKC schools – that’s 23,000 primary students. On January 1, we’re adding 2,875 ninth graders to this miracle of daily nutrition. Our delivery routes, computer teachers, cooks, and kitchens are in place. We need one final piece: the food.

 


 

WILL YOU HELP US FEED OUR NINTH GRADE STUDENTS?

Each $25 monthly donation provides lunch for 12 students.
Each $150 monthly donation feeds Grade 9 students in an entire school.
A single donation of $6,000 feeds every ninth grader in our 40 KKC schools for an entire month.

 

 

Thank you for your generous belief and investment in our students. We’re excited to have them in school and to feed them for another year. We can’t wait to watch them grow in confidence, health, knowledge, and hope.

So much can happen in the span of a year.

 

Serving students together,